This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rtla: Fix Makefile when called from -C tools/ to the 5.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: rtla-fix-makefile-when-called-from-c-tools.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 7a29562a62345c9cd796b2ce0c4f523ab041a8c2 Author: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 13 23:32:19 2022 +0200 rtla: Fix Makefile when called from -C tools/ [ Upstream commit c7d8a598c5b1e21a0957f5dec2ef4139d2d1a23a ] Sedat Dilek reported an error on rtla Makefile when running: $ make -C tools/ clean [...] make[2]: Entering directory '/home/dileks/src/linux-kernel/git/tools/tracing/rtla' [...] '/home/dileks/src/linux-kernel/git/Documentation/tools/rtla' /bin/sh: 1: test: rtla-make[2]:: unexpected operator <------ The problem rm: cannot remove '/home/dileks/src/linux-kernel/git': Is a directory make[2]: *** [Makefile:120: clean] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory This occurred because the rtla calls kernel's Makefile to get the version in silence mode, e.g., $ make -sC ../../.. kernelversion 5.19.0-rc4 But the -s is being ignored when rtla's makefile is called indirectly, so the output looks like this: $ make -C ../../.. kernelversion make: Entering directory '/root/linux' 5.19.0-rc4 make: Leaving directory '/root/linux' Using 'grep -v make' avoids this problem, e.g., $ make -C ../../.. kernelversion | grep -v make 5.19.0-rc4 Thus, add | grep -v make. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/870c02d4d97a921f02a31fa3b229fc549af61a20.1657747763.git.bristot@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 8619e32825fd ("rtla: Follow kernel version") Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile b/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile index 3822f4ea5f49..1bea2d16d4c1 100644 --- a/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile +++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ NAME := rtla # Follow the kernel version -VERSION := $(shell cat VERSION 2> /dev/null || make -sC ../../.. kernelversion) +VERSION := $(shell cat VERSION 2> /dev/null || make -sC ../../.. kernelversion | grep -v make) # From libtracefs: # Makefiles suck: This macro sets a default value of $(2) for the